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@GeorgieMySon75 @David90shaw @AllisonPearson I’m sure Labour will do extremely badly in the *local* elections. The impact this will have on the current government remains to be seen. Again, endless speculation about what *might* happen to the government without any evidence is totally pointless.

@speakjava @David90shaw @AllisonPearson Are you suggesting Labour aren't dead? They're the most unpopular govt in recent history

🚨 BREAKING: The plot to remove Keir Starmer has officially begun. A group of Labour MPs are currently preparing an open letter demanding a timetable for his resignation following Thursday's expected local election bloodbath. His premiership is collapsing in real time. 🧵👇

@cfc1959BH @David90shaw @AllisonPearson @DailyMirror @Kevin_Maguire I don’t give credence to any media that simply offers rumours and suppositions. All this speculation is pointless.

@speakjava @David90shaw @AllisonPearson So, who do we believe @DailyMirror and @Kevin_Maguire ?

@David90shaw The Telegraph? Really? That renowned bastion of independent journalism. The one that employs @AllisonPearson. You know, the one who keeps going on about the death of Labour. I'm sure Labour MPs are falling over themselves to give them the latest scoop. Riiiiigghht.

@speakjava Here you go: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

@WestminsterWAG @GWRHelp Now try the same thing on a plane and see what happens...

@GWRHelp I had a reservation for later but had to go back early

Standing room only on @GWRHelp to London from Par in Cornwall. £80 for a one way ticket, and they can’t even supply a seat.

@ayeshaijazkhan When you have no clue about what a parody account is. 🤦‍♂️

When you have no clue about economics—🤦‍♀️

@MartinMonmouth @10DowningStreet @vonderleyen @Keir_Starmer Local elections. Not a General Election. Your disappointment next week, when nothing changes in our government, will be most entertaining.

@10DowningStreet @vonderleyen @Keir_Starmer You're going to sell Britain out as the EU demands £billions of our money. We're throwing you out on May 7th.

When the UK and the European Union work together, we all reap the benefits. In these volatile times we need to go further and faster on economic, energy and defence security.

@jim8oy66 @Jaqscot Alright, you present us with what Labour have said they *won't* do. Now show us one shred of credible evidence (and I don't mean a post on X from someone with a lot of numbers in their username) of where they say they *will* do this.

@Jaqscot Sorry what was that?

Been trawling through Labour’s manifesto and I simply cannot find the part where it says “we will rejoin the EU” and give them a billion quids worth of taxpayer money?😳 I couldn’t hate this government more if I tried 🤬

@LexiBeaChorlton @LeeAndersonMP_ I read this and just assumed it was parody. I mean nobody would seriously write this load of nonsense about Lee Anderson, would they?

I absolutely adore @LeeAndersonMP_ He works really hard A genuine voice for hard working people In the years to come he should be knighted as Sir Lee Anderson, it has a great vibe to it From advocating for real life skills in cooking and nutrition, to solving local issues and dedicating his life to growing the Reform party and his @GBNEWS show which tells the truth about the net zero scam, Lee is a real life hero! He gives Starmer hard facts too and is always a great laugh Love his humour and his tenacity A real working class Gent!

@PapaJacques1953 @SandDancer9 @kelvmackenzie @bedford_colleen It’s pretty pathetic that he doesn’t even know what the word misogynistic means (or even able to spell it).

@SandDancer9 @speakjava @kelvmackenzie @bedford_colleen Immature twat

This is the end for Starmer. The Telegraph says Labour’s ruling National Executive will no longer stand in the way of Andy Burnham’s return to Parliament. In order to get a head start before Burnham lands a safe seat both Streeting and Rayner will take a run at No.10 directly the scale of the council disaster is known. Rachel Thieves can pack her bags as well. There’s no good news for those of us who believe in wealth creation. Whoever becomes PM will go even further left with more taxes on those that don’t view being on welfare as a lifestyle choice.

@afneil "Two-thirds of your MPs and over half the cabinet on course to lose their seats." In. Three. Years. Time. Maybe. As a "journalist", you'd think you could understand these are *local* elections, not a GE. 🤦‍♂️

Sensible points. But too late. It’s over. You’re an even bigger busted flush than the Tories. Two-thirds of your MPs and over half the cabinet on course to lose their seats. Bye. The problem is that what comes next unlikely to be any better. We really are in trouble.

@SandDancer9 @kelvmackenzie @bedford_colleen Did Truss have a mandate? Did Sunak? Did either of them call GE? You really don’t get how politics works, do you?

@kelvmackenzie @bedford_colleen They’ll have to call a GE sooner or later as the new leader wilt have no mandate, in the meantime I’m up for watching Starmer squirm in his way out the door.

@Humanistrider @AllisonPearson All those words are English, but none of them make any sense. Maybe social media is not the best medium for someone who has no ability to use punctuation.

@AllisonPearson the government must fall working class socialism was betrayed by attlee three empires migrants were not identity vetted for compatibility with white females I wish I had had it my way but quite obviously I did not white females were careless and chose multiculturalism #Kendal

Five Days Till the Death of Labour. 7 May 2026 ☠️

@adammocklerr @JimHansonDC I love watching Jim get ratioed biggly.

@JimHansonDC If you’re a “Chief Strategist for the Middle East” then no wonder we’re so fucked.

I can't think of anything more comical than a 23 year old with zero real world accomplishments explaining to "MAGA Operators" how warfare and geostrategy intersect. Oh do tell Adam, and where did you gain this tremendous insight none of us with decades on the ground and in the game failed to? I'm not some Ivory Tower academic or think tanker I have deployed to dozens of countries I doubt you could find on a map. I've watched out political leaders fail and tried my damndest to show them the light. Now we have a leader who understands American power and exceptionalism and has the stones to employ it. But instead of seeing how that plays out, we should take the advice of an un-experienced, smarmy toad who vomits political talking points as if they are wisdom. They are NOT. They are not even founded in the slightest reality, but you have no way to know that because you are the ultimate know nothing. Sniping from the sidelines of a life and death game in which you will never participate. Talk is cheap. Uninformed trash talk from a fatuous, fat-faced, featherbrain is the cheapest of all.

@JimHansonDC I think you'd be a lot better off if you just went back to making the Muppets.

@RicHolden @Keir_Starmer You're the very definition of pathetic. And, in case you hadn't noticed, he's still our Prime Minister.

Today, 5 years ago, was when it was first reported that Sir @Keir_Starmer appeared to have had more than a ‘necessary work event’ in a Labour MP’s office in #Durham #Beergate thesun.co.uk/news/14826418/…

@chatswithem Or in your case, the eradication of common sense.

The eradication of Britain

@aPassionForGod @gnoble79 You genuinely have no understanding of basic science, do you? Mars lacks magnetic poles so does not deflect solar radiation. Atmospheric pressure is 1% of earth’s so can’t support surface water. What little atmosphere it has is 95% CO2. Please, go try and colonise Mars. 🤡

Hilarious… ask yourself what has he done with his wealth so far? Bender humanity with every bit of his technology. Has he used any of the money on himself? Oh so very little, he doesn’t even own a home. While you’re at it, have you looked at yourself in the mirror and asked what you have done with your wealth? Or what if you were that wealthy? Sometimes it’s better to look in the mirror and see the log in our eye before we pull out the spec in our brother’s eye… Elon plans on using the money to try to bring civilization to Mars, making life multi planetary to preserve the human race… So selfish….

This is the most OUTRAGEOUS deal I've seen in my 45 years on Wall Street. SpaceX just disclosed Musk's new compensation package: He gets up to 200 million super-voting shares if SpaceX hits a $7.5 trillion valuation, establishes a permanent human settlement of at least ONE MILLION people on Mars, and deploys roughly 100 terawatts of space-based computing power. Let me put the 100 terawatts in perspective: The entire electricity generation capacity of the United States is around 1.2 terawatts. The comp plan asks Musk to build more than 80x America's entire power grid... in orbit. This is a science fiction screenplay that somehow landed in front of the SEC. But here's why it actually matters for your portfolio... The S-1 reportedly claims a $28.5 trillion total addressable market, with over 90 percent attributed to AI. CapeFearAdvisors flagged this one cleanly: when Palantir went public, it disclosed a $119 billion TAM and the SEC reviewed and accepted it. SpaceX is claiming a market roughly 240x BIGGER. Now let's talk about what is actually being sold here: Reported 2025 revenue is approximately $15.5 billion. Starlink delivers around $11 billion of that with healthy margins, and the launch business is genuinely dominant. The problem is xAI - the AI piece doing all the heavy lifting in the trillion-dollar valuation pitch. xAI generated just $210 million of revenue in the first 3 quarters of 2025 while burning through $9.5 billion in cash. Ben Brey and Rupert Mitchell - a former Fidelity portfolio manager and a former head of equity capital markets at Goldman and Citi between them - ran a serious discounted cash flow on the actual operating businesses and arrived at roughly $400 billion. Lawrence Fossi covered their work recently and the math holds up. The IPO is being marketed at $1.75 TRILLION. The gap between what these businesses support and what Musk is asking the public to pay is roughly $1.35 trillion of pure narrative. Then layer on what we just learned last week... The New York Times investigation revealed Musk personally borrowed $500 million from SpaceX between 2018 and 2020 at rates as low as 1%, while bank prime rates sat around 5%. The same SpaceX has been used to bail out SolarCity, prop up Tesla during cash crunches, and absorb xAI when the AI losses became unmanageable. This is the same playbook he's run for two decades. Use a privately controlled entity as a personal piggy bank, and when the bills come due, find new investors to absorb the losses. The IPO is structured to keep that game going FOREVER. The Texas reincorporation strips away Delaware's fiduciary protections. Controlled-company status on the Nasdaq eliminates independent board requirements. And retail is being offered up to 30% of the offering (3x the normal allocation) because the institutions who actually do the math are quietly stepping away. Here is the part that finishes the case for me: Roughly $40 billion of the IPO proceeds are already spoken for before a single dollar reaches operations. About $23 billion retires SpaceX debt. Another $17 billion retires the high-interest debt sitting on xAI and X. This raise is not funding the future. It's just plugging existing holes that retail investors will now own. In my 45 years I've never seen a deal where the comp hurdle is colonizing another planet. I've never seen a disclosed TAM that exceeds verified comparables by two orders of magnitude. I've never seen a company asking the public to fund the retirement of debt incurred by separate private entities controlled by the same individual. Every red flag I've watched precede a major bust over four decades is sitting in this prospectus, in plain sight. The Tesla mispricing is being repeated on a far larger scale. And this time the bag is being handed directly to retail. Don't be the one holding it.

@zk6dyysjxdy @SeddSezz I fully understand the point of the HoL. What makes no sense is selecting people at birth to fill some of the seats.

@speakjava @SeddSezz What gives them the right? None. But otherwise we’d be subject to the whims of populism. Massive tax cuts or tax rises etc. The House of Lords provides a check and balance against populist parties.

🚨Yesterday, Starmer removed all hereditary peers from the House of Lords It was the end of the 700-year-old tradition. The office of the Lord Great Chamberlain dates back to 1138, but this has also been eradicated. Labour loves doing away with tradition!